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Matthew 13:24-30; 36-43

Sermon

James Merritt

... one other thing. Although the field is clearly said to represent the world, some people try to see the field as the church, and to them the parable is a message about false elements in the church. Now there are unsaved church members but that is not the subject o f this parable. This parable contains instructions for the church in the world; not for a free pass for the world in the church. The point is, everywhere God sows His people, Satan sows his people. God's children and the Devil's children drive the ...

502. The Promise that Won’t Be Broken

2 Timothy 1:1-14

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Clayton A. Lord

... had blamed the Christians for the great fire that destroyed the city of Rome. For the first time they were subjected to terrible persecution and citizens from every corner of the empire turned against them. Christians were burned as living ... as much as he knows and loves us. A third promise is that we will receive power from above. In our human condition we are weak and subject to temptation and the wiles of the devil. God promises that when we come to him we will receive the power to stand up to the devil ...

503. Gateway to Grace

Joshua 5:9-12

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Frank Ramirez

... out survival. If historical dramas and books show us the glittering world of the very rich in ages past, we forget that most people were bitterly poor. They did not live long lives. The slightest infection could cast them into eternity. They were subject to the whims of rulers who believed they were descended from gods but whose personal morals suggested they were more likely descended from demons. Those who look back with fondness to a century ago might conveniently forget that blacks were oppressed in our ...

504. The Smell of Bread

2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14

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Stan Purdum

... asleep. (see, for example, 1 Thessalonians 4:14-15) There are also a few Bible verses we should hear on this subject. One is from the book of Revelation, where John of Patmos hears a voice from heaven that says, "Write this: Blessed are ... transition stage between the two can separate us from God's love, either. As yet one more biblical testimony, hear Jesus' own words on the subject: "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house there are many dwelling places. ...

505. Advent 2

Malachi 3:1-4, Luke 3:1-20, Philippians 1:1-11

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John R. Brokhoff

... Thus, John did not speak for himself. He spoke on behalf of Another. This made him brave and fearless in telling things as they were between God and sinners. The Word made John frank in exposing and condemning sin. He was not afraid to deal with controversial subjects in his preaching. 3. Went (v. 3). After John received the Word, he "went" to the people with God's Word. In this Luke differs from Mark who says the people came to John in the wilderness. Rather, Luke says John went to the people. This agrees ...

506. Where do You Live?

Romans 14:1-12

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... window to her neighbor's back yard where the wash was hanging on the line. She said: "See that lady next door and the wash she hangs out, see how dirty it is, she never hangs out a clean wash." The pastor felt somewhat uncomfortable and tried to change the subject and quickly drew the visit to a close. As he was departing from the house the lady of the house walked out on the front porch with him and again the wash next door was clearly visible to both of them. They both realized at the same time that this ...

507. Winning the War Over Fear (Series: Winning the Wars of Daily Life)

Luke 12:1-12

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J. Howard Olds

... We live in an age of anxiety and fear. If the goal of the Al Qaeda was to instill fear into the hearts of Americans, they have succeeded. Yet Jesus said, don’t let that kind of fear control you. You have a choice. When I announced my subject for today, an elementary student came up to me and said, “When you preach about fear, use the words of Franklin Roosevelt.” “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” I don’t know if Brandon has been reading American History or watching Dave Letterman ...

508. On the Road with the Little Children

Luke 18:15-17

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James W. Moore

... said: “Whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” And this is why the prophet Isaiah said: “A little child shall lead them.” Some years ago Reverend John Price came to our church to speak on the subject of “near death experience.” He has been a hospital chaplain for years and he has kept a journal of 89 patients he has known who have gone through the near-death experience… where they later talk about * The bright light, * The out-of-body experience ...

509. Dying to Live

John 12:20-36

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Maxie Dunnam

... , and the might of heaven was on the march and the campaign of victory was on the move.” But what they expected didn’t happen. Because what Jesus meant by “glorified” was not what they meant. They thought that all the kingdoms of the earth were going to be subjected under the son of man’s feet. But Jesus meant that he was going to the cross, and He was going to be glorified by being crucified. He was not going to be lifted up and crowned King. He would be lifted from the earth up on the cross as ...

510. The Trinity

John 16:5-16

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... Pentecost, as we did last week, without mentioning the doctrine of the Trinity? Today is Trinity Sunday. This is a day that has been celebrated in the Christian church since the 10th century. It is on this occasion that ministers around the world address themselves to the subject of the triune God. Let me begin by saying that the doctrine of the Trinity does not attempt to explain God. It only explains to us in a very elemental way what God has revealed to us about himself so far. To describe the tip of the ...

511. Exit and Entrance

Galatians 4:21-31

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Maxie Dunnam

... of a courthouse in a Southern town to register to vote. The caption beneath the picture said he was born a slave. To a marked degree, he had remained a slave, even after the Emancipation Proclamation. Unable to vote, subjected to the rigid discriminatory demands and tests of others, he was kept in subjection, but now he was free; and the look on his face showed his joy. He was going to express his freedom, his release from the humiliation of being a second—class citizen by registering to vote. That man ...

512. What is the Future of Marriage?

Mark 12:18-27

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J. Howard Olds

... and obligations. Marriage laws and customs have evolved through the years. Wanting to thoroughly research this sermon, I walked into a bookstore last week and asked the clerk if she had any books on the history of marriage since I was preparing a sermon on the subject. “Why don’t you go home and read the Bible?” she asked. I did. Once you leave the paradise of Eden, the Bible gets messy when it comes to marriage. When Sarah couldn’t have children, she insisted that Abraham sleep with her handmaiden ...

513. How To Handle Criticism? Keep Moving

Luke 9:51-56

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... our own back yards blasted and barren of hope. The website complaints.com boasts on its home page: “Often a single complaint posted to Complaints.com about a business appears higher in the search-result rankings than the home page of the business that is the subject of the complaint.” If you look at the tv programs we’re watching, and the magazines we’re reading, it seems we all want our first course to be dishing dirt. Biblically, the “culture of critique” often hasn’t worked too well for the ...

514. The Three Dimensions of Life

Genesis 6:1-22

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Stan Purdum

... one dimension of life, but breadth is another. We have only to go to the public library or the internet to get some feel for the number of areas of possible interest in this life. There are books and websites on every conceivable subject, and a person with an "inquiring mind" will find more subjects in those places than can be dealt with in a lifetime, even one as long as Methuselah's. But having interests in a number of things does bring a broadness to one's life. I had a history professor when I was in ...

515. Headed in the Right Direction

Romans 15:4-13

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John N. Brittain

... inferior, indeed childlike or even imbecilic, compared to that of the present. Under the rule of chronological snobbery, the West has convinced itself that intellectually, humanity languished for countless generations in the most childish errors on all sorts of crucial subjects, until it was redeemed by some simple scientific dictum of the last century. (1) Elsewhere, Barfield observed, "It has become to believe that ‘anything more than a hundred years old is ancient' and ‘in the world of books, or ...

516. Will It Last?

1 Corinthians 3:10-11, 16-23

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John N. Brittain

... to any question involving human rights," Finney continued with a sentence not from last week but nearly two centuries ago! Perhaps he meant something different than do we by "human rights." Not at all. Finney continued, "Take the subject of slavery, for instance. The time was when this subject was not before the public mind. John Newton continued in the slave trade after his conversion, and his mind had been so perverted, and so completely was his conscience seared, in regard to this most nefarious traffic ...

517. Freedom and Slavery

Romans 6:15-23

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Steven E. Albertin

... to serve Jesus and the guy who sells that software and justly expects to make a profit." Martin Luther describes it well in the opening words of his famous 1523 treatise "On the Freedom of the Christian." He says, "I am perfectly free, subject to no one. At the same time I am a slave, subject to everyone." People, this kind of freedom is yours. You are free in Jesus Christ. You no longer need to be enslaved to your old selfish wants and desires. You are free to be slaves of Jesus Christ and servants of your ...

518. Seeing God Work for Good

Romans 8:26-39

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Larry Lange

... Christ Jesus himself kneeling down to intercede for you? (Romans 8:34). How can we see God working for good in all things? Especially when all we can see is hardship and distress and persecution and peril. Especially when all we can see is creation subjected to futility and in bondage to decay. One late afternoon, the winter before Larry died, I was driving north through open country when an invisible blast of cold air suddenly turned a mildly irritating rainstorm into showers of ice and snow. In the course ...

519. Whose Wife Will She Be?

Luke 20:27-40

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King Duncan

... her hands on her knees, leaned forward and said in a quiet little voice, “Mr., I don’t fink my pyfon weally cares.” Well, she’s probably right. Her pet python didn’t care what color the rabbits were that were put in his cage. Our subject this morning is one of life’s universals. Like those rabbits, it makes no difference whether we are black, brown, yellow or white. It makes no difference whether we are rich or poor whether we are people of great acclaim or nobodies even whether we are sinners ...

520. The Prayer of a Thief

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... parish celebrated the annual festival of its patron saint, Saint Joseph. It was a big event, and the theme of the Sunday mass was to be fatherhood, as Joseph was the father of Jesus. The priest prepared what he thought was a particularly good sermon on the subject. But when he went up into the pulpit, and surveyed the packed house, something came over him. He set his homily aside and instead he began like this, “Today is the Feast of our blessed Saint Joseph. St. Joseph, as you know, was a carpenter, and ...

521. The Garden of Temptation

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... God placed upon the woman or are these merely a description of how life will be in a fallen world? For example, suppose modern science were to eliminate all pain in childbirth? Would that mean that we have eliminated God’s curse? And how about women’s subjection to men? Is that a curse or is it simply a description of the way things are in a fallen world? Actually, this question is academic because Christ has removed the curse from Eve, as well as from all humanity. St. Paul, not exactly regarded as a ...

522. Act Quickly - Catch It Early

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... only person they hurt is themselves. Jesus, as usual, hit the nail squarely on the head. “You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment . . . anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell. “Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave ...

523. The Healing Touch

Mark 1:29-39

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... s most gracious act will be to let life mercifully end. Those decisions are not ours; rather they are rightfully in the hands of a caring and loving God. There is much to learn about our ministry of healing because the subject has been neglected for so long. Of course, we can study the subject to death and use our incomplete work as an excuse for inaction. No, if the church is to regain its healing touch, the church has to, as the commercial says, just do it! Please note that scripture does not reserve this ...

524. Jesus and Divorce

Mark 10:2-16

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David E. Leininger

... united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.' So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate" (vv. 5-9). I wonder what the Lord would say if he came back today and spoke on the same subject? I suspect that, considering the current situation, he would say the same thing all over again, and particularly if he were as concerned with the protection of women, for that, after all, was the force of his words in the first place. We say "You've come a long ...

525. A Whole City at The Door

Mark 1:29-39

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Robert J. Elder

... had been in the accounts receivable file for a long, long time. The bookkeeper says to the doctor, "He says that since you told him his recovery was a miracle, he sent his check to the church." Our passage from Mark touches on the subject of miraculous healing. This early sequence of events in Jesus' ministry seems to set the stage for his growing reputation. Mark says, "at once his fame began to spread everywhere throughout the surrounding region..." (v. 28), "the whole city was gathered around the door ...

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